How Politics Makes Us Sick
Neoliberal Epidemics
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Building Back Worse? The Prognosis for Health Equity in the Post-pandemic World
The concept of health equity—in a simplified view, socially patterned inequalities in health outcomes that are unfair or unjust and avoidable—originated in the work for the World Health Organization’s European...
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Open AccessEquity of primary care service delivery for low income “sicker” adults across 10 OECD countries
Despite significant investments to support primary care internationally, income-based inequities in access to quality health care are present in many high-income countries. This study aims to determine whether...
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Canadian mining and ill health in Latin America: a call to action
This commentary argues that Canada’s public and global health communities have a special ethical and political responsibility to act to reverse the harms associated with Canadian mining activities in Latin Ame...
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Theorising health inequalities: Introduction to a double special issue
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Open AccessGlobalization and the health of Canadians: ‘Having a job is the most important thing’
Globalization describes processes of greater integration of the world economy through increased flows of goods, services, capital and people. Globalization has undergone significant transformation since the 19...
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Conclusion: Their Scarcity and Our Political Cure
In our concluding chapter, we outline some common themes shared across the four neoliberal epidemics that we have identified, offering some reflections on the evidence of the ill-health effects of neoliberalis...
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Obesity: How Politics Makes Us Fat
We start with an overview of our first neoliberal epidemic—obesity. Over the last 30 years, obesity rates have doubled in countries such as the UK and the US, with over 20 and 30 per cent (respectively) of adu...
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Austerity: How Politics Has Pulled Away Our Safety Net
David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu (2013) introduce their book on austerity and its health consequences with the case of a stroke-paralysed man with limited ability to walk who was cut off disability benefits by A...
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Introduction: Politics and Health
In this introductory chapter we examine how health varies internationally among rich countries and the social, economic and political reasons for these differences. We also introduce the concept of welfare sta...
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Insecurity: How Politics Gets Under Our Skin
In this chapter we focus on the neoliberal epidemic of insecurity. Here we argue that neoliberalism has made the labour market and the world of work far less secure and consequently more stressful and health d...
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Inequality: How Politics Divides and Rules Us
Why care about inequality? Within the small local authority area of Stockton-on-Tees (population 192,000), the difference in male life expectancy between the most and least deprived areas in 2014 was 16 years ...
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Open AccessGlobal health and national borders: the ethics of foreign aid in a time of financial crisis
The governments and citizens of the developed nations are increasingly called upon to contribute financially to health initiatives outside their borders. Although international development assistance for healt...
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Open AccessAccess to primary healthcare services for the Roma population in Serbia: a secondary data analysis
Serbia has proclaimed access to healthcare as a human right. In a context wherein the Roma population are disadvantaged, the aim of this study was to assess whether the Roma population are able to effectively ...
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Beyond the Matrix: Thinking Three-dimensionally About Social Determinants of Health
Increased availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection is a global health success story. According to UNAIDS, in just the three years from 2003 to 2006, the estimated number of people receivi...
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The Power of Money: Global Financial Markets, National Politics, and Social Determinants of Health
In the second half of 2008, two events occurred that are, individually and together, highly significant for the future of global health. First, in August 2008 the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Commission o...
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The G8, Globalization, and the Need for a Global Health Ethic
In 2001, colleagues and I1 began the first ‘report card’ on how the actions and policies of the G7/G82 affected population health, in particular the health of populations outside the high-income countries (Labont...
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Open AccessThe 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems?
The potentially destructive polarisation between 'vertical' financing (aiming for disease-specific results) and 'horizontal' financing (aiming for improved health systems) of health services in develo** coun...
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Open AccessGlobalization and social determinants of health: The role of the global marketplace (part 2 of 3)
Globalization is a key context for the study of social determinants of health (SDH): broadly stated, SDH are the conditions in which people live and work, and that affect their opportunities to lead healthy li...
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Open AccessGlobalization and social determinants of health: Introduction and methodological background (part 1 of 3)
Globalization is a key context for the study of social determinants of health (SDH). Broadly stated, SDH are the conditions in which people live and work, and that affect their opportunities to lead healthy li...
